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Chapter 744: This is My Fire (2)
Swooooosh!
As Yeongwoo thrust his sword and subsequently cast 'Lightning Step', the already incredibly fast stab shot forward like a literal bullet.
—……!
Startled by this, Ban hastily spun his spear shaft and pulled his body back, and almost at the same time, the tip of Bastard's blade cleaved through the empty air.
"You're really good at dodging."
However, wasn't there also a rule of engagement like this in Blazeflow?
'After finishing the first attack, prepare for the third attack.'
So, Yeongwoo shouted as he stared at Ban's predicted escape route.
"Three Hundred Ninety-Four Sword Mountain……!"
—Three hundred……?
At the abrupt summoning of the sword mountain, Ban pulled his body back once more, and soon hundreds of blades poured down from above his head.
Ruuuumble!
—Damn it.
Ban had no choice but to shift his position again.
Ta-at!
As he lowered his stance to the extreme and slipped away to the side along with his spear, Yeongwoo, who had been waiting for exactly this, unleashed a diagonal slash in that direction.
Swaaaeeek!
Along with a tremendous sound of tearing air, a dark red trajectory was drawn precisely in the direction Ban was running, and the result appeared immediately.
Slaaash!
Along with a brief cutting sound, Ban's left arm was severed.
“……!”
—Ah……!
With a low groan, Ban swiftly rolled on the ground, but this wasn't from the recoil of having his arm cut off.
—Die!
It was a preparation for a counterattack.
Just like Blazeflow, which attempts an attack in any given situation.
Hwiiiiish!
Still fallen on the ground, Ban drew a spiral with his entire body and swung his spear upwards, and as Yeongwoo tried to defend with Aratubank...
Fwooosh!
Once again, a sense of heat circulated through his entire body, and an unexpected movement was forced upon him.
He thrust Bastard out to narrowly block the spear blade, and then abruptly hurled Aratubank straight at the opponent's face.
'What?'
『All stances are meant to prepare for an attack.』
Paaang!
With his face completely exposed, Ban had no choice but to be struck by Aratubank, and soon after, Bastard, which had been in a contest of strength with the spear blade, twisted its blade diagonally.
Schwiing!
Then, Bastard slid down along the surface of the spear shaft and naturally reached right in front of Ban's neck.
"W-Wait!"
Had Yeongwoo not desperately put strength into his arm, he would have sliced Ban's neck right then and there.
× What is it? You've already won.
Obstruction of Official Duties also expressed confusion at Yeongwoo's decision not to push the blade all the way in, and it seemed the opponent, Ban, felt the same.
—…What are you thinking now?
Then, soon after, his pupils dyed with a golden light as he made a complicated expression.
The alarm from the Prestige System had finally appeared.
“…….”
Yeongwoo, who was facing his opponent, was also able to immediately notice this fact, so he slightly retracted Bastard backward.
No matter how much of a Kaujo trainee he was, wouldn't he be somewhat shaken if he met the master of a Planetary Ship, a being called a marvel of the universe?
Therefore, he thought that perhaps they might be able to communicate a little.
"Do you understand the meaning of my name a bit now?"
As Yeongwoo looked at Ban without letting down his minimal guard, he soon stared at Yeongwoo with pupils that held a lingering golden afterimage.
—You're... a Planetary Shipmaster?
"Am I merely a Planetary Shipmaster? I am the owner of Bastard, and also……"
Yeongwoo, who was about to continue his self-introduction, soon closed his mouth.
Blazeflow, the mythical swordsmanship that only a single existence in the universe could master.
It was because he felt there would be no benefit in stating facts such as being the inheritor of this swordsmanship.
Clack.
Following that, as Ban tried to move the spear shaft that was still extended over Yeongwoo's shoulder, Yeongwoo thrust Bastard menacingly toward him and spoke.
"I'm sure you have something more up your sleeve as well, but it's not like I've used my full strength either. If you make any unnecessary movements, I'll immediately cut your neck."
—...But aren't you going to cut it anyway? We were in the middle of a duel to begin with.
"That's your stance, but I'm a bit different."
—What exactly is different?
"I have quite a bit of interest in the altar food, you see."
—……?
Because it was an extremely Earth-like expression, Ban couldn't understand it properly, so Yeongwoo quickly spat out his next line.
"Hand over all your Catalog collection progress to me. Then I'll let you get out of here alive."
—You're telling me to beg you for my life……?
"I'm not telling you to beg. I'm telling you to pay a fair price and purchase your life."
—As long as the power to decide life or death lies with you, I think it's ultimately the same thing.
"That depends on how you take it."
As Yeongwoo said this and shrugged his shoulders, this time Obstruction of Official Duties interrupted while aiming its muzzle at Ban's forehead.
× But what about the tokens? And if you defeat a guy this strong, there will be quite a big change in your rank too, are you giving that up as well?
"We can always come back to the dungeon next time. But when would I ever get to meet a Kaujo trainee again? As long as I enhance my Catalog enough, I can raise things like the White Rank as much as I want anyway."
However, there was one thing that even Yeongwoo hadn't anticipated.
That was none other than the will of a Kaujo trainee.
—Kaujo is the order of this universe itself, tearing down even 3rd-class entities. Do you think I, who have decided to walk this path, would succumb to such trivial threats?
Along with those resolute words, Ban eventually moved his spear shaft again.
Swooosh!
He had made up his mind to have a round two.
× What the, what are you going to do now? Just kill him?
While Obstruction of Official Duties asked this with its aim fixed on Ban's forehead, Yeongwoo moved first.
"Damn it. You're ridiculously stubborn."
He had decided to kill Ban before he could even put the spear that was currently out into his Catalog.
And as Yeongwoo made this resolution, Blazeflow also established the optimal attack route.
Swaaaaeeek!
A thrust truly like a flash of lightning.
Since Bastard was already in a state of touching extremely close to Ban, if he aimed for his torso rather than his neck, there would be no way for the opponent to dodge.
And indeed.
Thwuck!
As soon as Yeongwoo thrust out his sword, Ban's spear shaft shook violently.
—Ugh!
It was because Bastard had embedded itself deep into Ban's chest.
“…….”
—……!
At this moment, Yeongwoo and Ban's gazes met momentarily, and soon after, the instant Ban was about to harbor some sort of intention.
Sssshk!
Bastard was drawn diagonally, cleaving Ban's head from his body.
And then, unexpectedly, an alarm from the Prestige System appeared in Yeongwoo's field of vision.
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「+0.2 for eliminating a possessor of the Kaujo mark」
'Huh……? Kaujo is registered in the Prestige System?'
Come to think of it, since a Planetary Shipmaster, a chaos of the universe, was registered in the system, it wouldn't be strange for Kaujo, who were practically at the opposite extreme, to be included in the Prestige roster.
"From the moment I first saw you, I expected we'd eventually fight to the death, but I was still hoping for some unpredictability."
As Yeongwoo was looking at Ban's head, which had rolled on the ground a few times before stopping, Obstruction of Official Duties suddenly spun 180 degrees backward and aimed behind them as it spoke.
× Hey, where are you running off to? If you're done spectating, you should pay the admission fee.
At this, Yeongwoo looked back and saw the tall participant who had chosen the 'Treasure Box' earlier standing in an awkward posture.
"Exactly. Where are you going at this point? You need a partner to go home anyway."
When Yeongwoo flicked Bastard as if telling him to come over, right on cue, the token attached to the side of his head swelled significantly.
Paaat!
It had increased to a whopping 23.
On the other hand, the token the tall participant possessed was only one.
He had used up all the tokens he had earlier when purchasing the 'Treasure Box'.
So, Yeongwoo used this fact in reverse.
"You don't have any nutritional value anyway, so you're not even worth killing. So don't make things bigger than they need to be and follow me quietly. No, I suppose it would be correct for me to follow you."
—You're going to follow me……?
"Of course. You have the Treasure Box function."
According to what Yeongwoo had confirmed through 'Confidential', the condition for obtaining the hidden reward of this dungeon was to secure 200 tokens and then escape.
In other words, he still had to collect as many as 177 more tokens.
'The base tokens for all participants are 3 each. Token imbalances occur while forming teams, but it's undeniable that the average is 3 anyway.'
So, simply calculating, it meant he had to kill 59 more people in the future to collect 200 tokens.
However, since the recommended capacity for this dungeon was 24 people, no matter how many excess people had entered…….
'It would be 40 at most. In reality, it would be lower than that.'
Therefore, it could only mean that the hidden reward condition could not be fulfilled through normal methods.
That is, it was a condition that could only be achieved by utilizing the 'Treasure Box', one of the guide functions.
× I'll keep aiming at that guy, so hurry up and grab the loot.
At Obstruction of Official Duties' words, Yeongwoo turned his body and headed back toward Ban.
As expected, the very first thing to check would be the weapon.
"He definitely could have used multiple weapons. It's a bit of a waste that he blew away his Catalog."
Saying this as he touched Ban's keepsake, the spear, Yeongwoo soon had no choice but to change his mind.
"Ah."
The weapon he was using was in itself an equipment given to trainees to begin with.
「Guider」 - Legendary Spear
【Damage to evil-doers increased by 20%.】
【Insight performance increased by 15%.】
【Power of Order】
|Power of Order: If the user is a Combat Civil Servant, all effects of this equipment are doubled.
"What... does this mean he majored in spearmanship?"
But this probably wasn't the regular equipment for a Kaujo.
Because all the Kaujos he saw in Pahaluphe used weapons that looked exactly the same.
Of course, he hadn't met all the Kaujo units, so perhaps their characteristics differed by division.
Regardless, Ban had died, so he wouldn't be able to hear any more information about Kaujo.
'And even if he were alive, he wouldn't have spilled their secrets to me.'
Staring intently at Ban, who ultimately chose death, Yeongwoo felt a fresh bout of goosebumps.
If a mere trainee possessed this level of combat power and willpower, just how incredible were the regular forces?
'Well, I suppose they must be at least this good to be used to catch the Chairmen.'
Following that, he rummaged through the clothes Ban was wearing, but he couldn't find any more equipment that displayed a tooltip.
He didn't know how much equipment he had kept inside his Catalog, but at the very least, the only equipment he had taken out was that single spear.
'Could it be that he was always prepared even for the moment after death?'
Next, as he peeled back the bandages Ban used to cover both his arms, another tattoo caught his eye.
"Look at this. Is this tattoo included in your data too?"
It was a tattoo that looked like an hourglass, and about 2/3 of Ban's was colored black.
At this, Obstruction of Official Duties rotated its index finger to check the tattoo and twitched its finger.
× This is a Kaujo tattoo too. It indicates a sort of rank, and since this tattoo isn't completely colored in, it's clear evidence of being a trainee.
"Still, wouldn't it have been near the final stages of training? Seeing him fight, it looked like they could beat down the likes of the Presidents as much as they want, as long as they have enough numbers."
× But it's nowhere near enough to face the Great Ones.
The moment Obstruction of Official Duties said this, a pure white light flashed at the side of Yeongwoo's head.
"...Huh?"
So as Yeongwoo raised his body and shifted his gaze to the empty air, the system text soon provided a new notification from there.
「There is a vast discrepancy between your rank and your actual performance.」
「Accordingly, your position within the White Rank will be readjusted.」
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